Coke-handling apparatus.



No. 808,741 PATENTED JAN. 2, 1906. G. e. PRYER.

COKE HANDLING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED 141 .11.24, 1902.

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WITNESSES: INVENTOR TTORNEYS No. 808,741. ,PATENTED JAN. 2, 1906. G. G. FRYER.

COKE HANDLING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.24, 1902.

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WITNESSES: INVENTOR ATTORNEYS PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE G. FRYER, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

COKE-HANDLING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 2, 1906.

Application filed March 24, 1902. Serial No. 99,805.:

T0 (11 whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE G. FR YER, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful (Joke-Handling Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has for its object the prod uction of an apparatus for handling coke or other materials which, without necessitating handling or working of the coke and with a minimum breakage thereof, distributes the coke upon a platform in a layer of substantially uniform thickness.

Figure 1 is a top plan of a preferable embodiment of my apparatus. Figs. 2 and 3 are respectively elevation and top plan of the detached receiving means of my invention. Fig. 4 is an elevation, partly in section, of

the detached rocking support for the platform of the receiving means.

In its illustrated embodiment my apparatus comprises aiplurality of coke-ovens A, a device B for discharging the body of coke from the ovens, and a movable platform 0.

The ovens A, which may be of any desirable form, size, and construction, are here illustrated as parallel and formed with substantially horizontal cokeproducing chambers a, the usual front, rear, and upper openings leading from the chambers a, and suitable closures for said openings.

As here shown, the device B consists of a carriage Z), movable along a guide 5, arranged at the rear of the ovens A, and a plunger 6 supported by the carriage 5 and reciprocally movable in the coke-producing chambers for discharging the coke therefrom in a substantially horizontal plane. Said plunger is suitably connected with an engine or other motor (not illustrated) for moving the same in the coke-producing chambers to.

The platform C preferably forms part of a car, which consists of said platform, a frame 0, and a retaining-wall 0', and is moved by any desirable means 0 lengthwise of rails 0 or any other suitable guide. Said platform is of any desirable form, size, .and construction, and is here shown as circular and as normally supported by the frame 0 in close proximity to the chambers a in a horizontal plane substantially coincident with the bottoms of said chambers, (indicated by the line 1, Fig. 2.) The connections between the platform C and the frame 0 generally consist of a spindle 0 depending from the platform, and a support 0 formed with a socket in which the spindle c turns freely, and connected to the frame by substantially horizontal pivotal members, as trunnions 0 journaled in the frame 0. Said spindle is usually provided with a part 0 which engages a curved guide 0 on the frame 0 for facilitating the support of the platform C, especially when the support 0 is moved on its pivotal members. A platform supported as described is essentially journaled in the frame on two axes, one being substantially upright and arranged at the side of and in a plane at right angles to the path of the body of coke during its passage through the oven, and the other being disposed in a horizontal plane substantially parallel to said path of the body of coke. The platform C may therefore move substantially crosswise of the path of the coke for facilitating the distribution thereof upon the platform or may move in a substantially vertical plane for changing the position of the platform relatively to the frame and the retaining-wall and discharging the coke from said platform.

The frame 0 and the retaining-wall 0 may both be of any suitable form, size,and construction and are generally fixed together by any desirable means, as braces 0 Said retainingwall prevents the escape of the coke from the platform G and is usually formed with an extension provided with a floor 0 and an inlet-opening 0, arranged at the side of the substantially upright axis of the platform (3 and provided with a closure 0.

The platform C may be moved on its axes by any suitable means, here shown as a gear 0 connected directly to the platform (1, and a gear 0, connected to the support 0 Said gears 0 a may be actuated by hand or power, as desired. In the illustrated embodiment of my invention the gear 0 is mounted on a shaft journaled in a bracket rising from the support 0", in which the platform O is journaled, and the gear 0 is mounted on a shaft journaled in the frame 0 and engages a curved rack provided on the support 0".

In the use of my apparatus the coke emerges in a compact mass or body from the exit-opening of the chamber a and moves through the opening o and upon the platform O with a minimum breakage of the coke. The movement of the coke upon the platform C may serve to rotate said platform, or, if desired, the gear 0 may be utilized for this purpose. As the platform 0 rotates the surface thereof which has received a portion of the mass or body of coke is moved in the line of formation of the discharged body of coke out of register with the exit-opening of the oven alined therewith, and other surfaces of said platform are successively brought into register with said exit-opening, and thus into substantially tangential relation with the path of movement of the coke emerging from the oven, 'so that the coke is discharged upon said platform substantially tangentially of the' same. When the coke is discharged upon the platform (J, it is quenched in any suitable manner, as by water, is conveyed to the point of use by the car, and is then discharged from said platform beneath the retaining-wall 0 by operating the gear 0 to tilt the platform on its horizontal axis.

The construction and operation of my apparatus will now be readily understood upon reference to the foregoing description and the accompanying drawings, and it will be obvious to those skilled in the art that more or less change may be made in the construction and arrangement of the component parts thereof without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is I 1. The combination in a coke-handlingapparatus with a coke-oven; of a device for discharging the body of coke from the oven, and a platform for receiving the body of coke, said platform being movable on an axis arranged in a plane at an angle to the path of the body of coke during the passage of said coke through the oven, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. The combination in a coke-handling apparatus with a coke-oven; of a device for discharging the body of coke from the oven, and a platform for receiving the body of coke, said platform being movable on an axis substantially crosswise of the path of the body of coke during its passage through the oven, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

3. The combination in a coke-handling apparatus with a coke-oven; of a device for discharging the body of coke from the oven, and

being movable on a substantially upright axis crosswise of the path of the body of coke during its passage through the oven, substantially as and for the purpose described.

5. The combination in a coke-handling apparatus with a coke-oven; of a device for discharging the body of coke from the oven, and a platform for receiving the body of coke, said platform being movable on an axis substantially crosswise of the path of the body of coke during its passage through the oven, and being movable on an axis disposed at an angle to the first-mentioned axis for discharging the coke, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

6. The combination in a coke-handling apparatus with a coke-oven; of a device for discharging the body of coke from the oven, a frame, a platform for receiving the body of coke, said platform being journaled in the frame on axes disposed at an angle to each other and being movable relatively to the frame on one axis substantially crosswise of the path of the body of coke during its passage through the oven, and being movable relatively to the frame on the other axis for discharging the coke, and means for moving the platform relatively to the frame, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

7. The combination in a coke-handling apparatus with a coke-oven; of a device for discharging the body of coke from the oven, and a platform for receiving and retaining the body of coke, said platform, for discharging the coke, being movable on an axis arranged substantially'parallel to the path of the body of coke during its passage through the oven, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

8. The combination in a coke-handling apparatus with a coke-oven; of a device for discharging the body of coke from the oven, a platform for receiving the body of coke, said platform being movable on an axis arranged in a plane at an angle to the path of the body of coke during the passage of said coke through the oven, and means for additionally moving the platform for discharging the coke therefrom, substantially as and for the purpose described.

9. The combination in a coke-handling apparatus with a coke-oven; of a device for discharging the body of coke from the oven, a platform for receiving and retaining the body of coke, said platform being movable on an axis substantially crosswise of the path of the body of coke during its passage through the oven and being movable on a second axis for discharging the coke from the platform, and means for moving the platform on said second axis, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

10. The combination in a coke-handling apparatus with a coke-oven; of a device for discharging the body of coke from the oven, a platform for receiving and retaining the body of coke, said platform being movable on an axis arranged in a plane at an angle to the path of the body of coke during the passage of said coke through the oven, a retaining-wall for preventing the escape of the coke from the platform, and means for changing the position of the platform relatively to the retaining-wall and thereby discharging the coke from the platform, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

11. The combination in a coke-handling apparatus with a coke-oven; of a device for discharging the body of coke from the oven, a platform for receiving and retaining the body of coke, said platform being movable on an axis substantially crosswise of the path of the body of coke during its passage through the oven, a retaining-wall for preventing the escape of the coke from the platform, said retaining-wall being formed with an opening arranged at the side of the axis, and means for moving the platform and thereby discharging the coke therefrom, substantially as and the purpose described.

12. In a coke-handling apparatus and in combination, a coke-oven having an exit-opening for the coke, means for discharging the coke from the oven in a compact mass or body, and movably-mounted receiving means therefor arranged to have movement imparted thereto by the coke in the discharge movement of the same to carry the surface which has received a body of coke out of register with the exit-opening of the oven and to bring other surfaces of said receiving means into register with said exit-opening, substantially as described.

13. In a coke-handling apparatus and in combination, a rotatable receiving-surface, a coke-oven, and means for discharging a body of coke from said oven in a compact body or mass onto said surface, substantially tangentially of the latter, substantially as described.

14:. In a coke-handling apparatus, the combination with a coke-oven, and means for discharging coke therefrom in a compact mass or body, of a rotatable receiving-surface, arranged substantially tangentially in relation to the line of movement of said body of coke, substantially as described.

15. In a coke-handling apparatus, the combination with a coke-oven, and means for discharging the coke therefrom in a compact mass or body, of a rotatable receiving-surface arranged to receive said body of coke substantially tangentially of the same, substantially as described,

16. In a coke-handling apparatus, the combination with a coke-oven, and means for discharging the coke therefrom in a compact mass or body, of a receiving-surface movable transversely of the line of movement of the discharged coke, and having an additional movement in the line of formation of the discharged body of coke to bring all portions of its surface into register with said coke-chamber with a minimum breakage of the discharged body of coke, substantially as described.

17. In a coke-handling apparatus, the combination with a plurality of parallel cokeovens, and means for discharging the coke therefrom along substantially parallel paths, of receiving means having movement transversely of said paths to successively register with each of the same and having an additional movement to successively bring different parts of the receiving-surface thereof substantially in tangential relation to said paths of movement, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name, in the presence of two attesting witnesses, at Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, this 15th day of March, 1902.

GEORGE G. FRYER. Witnesses:

D. LAVINE, F. G..Bo1)nLL. 

